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Leaving despair behind: Why holding on to hope is hard even with the end of the pandemic in sight

Leaving despair behind: Why holding on to hope is hard even with the end of the pandemic in sight

Posted by | Mar 23, 2021 |

By Rachel Hadas, Professor of English, Rutgers University – Newark As we begin to glimpse what might be the beginning of the end of the pandemic, what does hope mean? It’s hard not to sense the presence of hope, but how do we think of it? Hope is fragile but tough, fugitive but tenacious, even adhesive. It sticks: Hope “stayed behind/in her impregnable home beneath the lip/of the jar,” wrote the ancient Greek poet Hesiod in his poem “Works and Days.” While the evils released from the jar by Pandora fly out into the world, hope remains. Written in...

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A Privilege of Silence: White men have not done enough to call out the toxic perpetrators who are White men

A Privilege of Silence: White men have not done enough to call out the toxic perpetrators who are White men

Posted by | Mar 20, 2021

America has a white male problem. If you’re living here and you’re not a white male, I likely don’t have to do much to convince you of that fact. You’ve been an eyewitness. You’ve had a front row seat to the horrors. You’ve likely been on the receiving end of the misogyny, carried the brunt of the bigotry, and sustained the bruises of the brutality. We’ve all seen the mass shootings, read the assault statistics, and inventoried the hate crimes and they speak for themselves. The pattern is undeniable, the repetition is clear. We know that the violence of...

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Hate crimes against Asian Americans began to rise as Trump politicized the pandemic and attacked China

Hate crimes against Asian Americans began to rise as Trump politicized the pandemic and attacked China

Posted by | Mar 19, 2021 |

On March 16 in Georgia, a gunman murdered 1 man and 7 women, at three spas, and wounded another man. All three of the businesses were operating legally, according to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, and had not previously come to the attention of the Atlanta Police Department, although all three had been reviewed by an erotic review site. The man apprehended for the murders was 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, who is described as deeply religious. Six of the women killed were of Asian descent. At the news conference about the killings, on the following day – March 17,...

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Atlanta spa shootings by White gunman appears to intersect gender-based violence, misogyny, and xenophobia

Atlanta spa shootings by White gunman appears to intersect gender-based violence, misogyny, and xenophobia

Posted by | Mar 18, 2021 |

A white gunman was charged on March 17 with killing eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors in an attack that sent terror nationwide through Asian American community that have increasingly been targeted during the coronavirus pandemic. Robert Aaron Long, 21, told police that the attack was not racially motivated and claimed to have a “sex addiction,” with authorities saying he apparently lashed out at what he saw as sources of temptation. Six of the victims were identified as Asian and seven were women. Authorities said that they did not know if...

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State and local leaders in Wisconsin condemn targeted attack on women of Asian descent in Georgia

State and local leaders in Wisconsin condemn targeted attack on women of Asian descent in Georgia

Posted by | Mar 18, 2021 |

Three attacks at Atlanta-area spas on March 16 that left eight people dead has sent shockwaves through Asian American communities nationwide. While the White gunman’s motive remains unclear, the tragedy follows a growing trend of hate crimes that have Asian Americans since the COVID-19 pandemic began. While Atlanta authorities have hesitated to characterize the mass shooting as a hate crime, it follows a year of racist rhetoric from ex-president Trump who routinely called COVID-19 the “China virus” in order to deflect criticism of his mishandling of the public health crisis. Hmong Americans are the largest Asian ethnic group in...

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What’s past is prologue: When the rhetoric of hate lives on in the monsters MAGA culture makes

What’s past is prologue: When the rhetoric of hate lives on in the monsters MAGA culture makes

Posted by | Mar 18, 2021

Words are stunningly versatile things. They have the ability to either create or to destroy, to lift us or level us, to give us wings or to crush us beneath their weight, to inspire us to reach the loftiness parts of our nature or to drive us to the depths of our blackest darkness. We know this to be true from the way other’s voices have shaped us in both redemptive and debilitating ways. The words of others can become for us the language for all that we harbor unspoken in our hearts: every unfulfilled longing, each unhealed wound,...

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